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What is a “Socio-Technical System?”

The Lean Thinker

The work also met every definition of “difficult, dirty and dangerous.” When “trams” (coal carts) were in short supply, for example, the “trammers” would horde carts to optimize their team’s performance at the expense of other teams being limited by the number of carts available.

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Reshoring Or Not, What is Manufacturing? 4 Questions to Ponder with Real American Manufacturers

GlobalTranz

Envisioning What is Manufacturing as a Triangle.And Match them Up To Real American Manufacturer Examples. The ‘ole “garbage in; garbage out” (GIGO) adage definitely applies here. GBC: Initially , Production Planning would issue Traveling Requisitions (TRs) to Purchasing with offsetting lead times and a “Due Date” to meet the MPS.